I’ve been seeing some strange trends with a few of our Surface Pro 3 devices. For some of them, they seem to be loosing functionality (drivers?) with the Microsoft Dock hardware. Cases in point; one Surface Pro 3 tablet (Win 8.1) has lost the ability to connect to the network via the Dock Ethernet port. If I take another SP# unit and place it in the same Dock, it connects fine to the network with no issues…so it doesn’t seem to be an issue with the dock itself…just this particular tablet picking up and using the driver. I’m going to see if any of the Ethernet drivers in this pack (or the driver pack MSI itself) resolves the issue before doing reimaging the unit. Likewise, a different SP3 user reported their external monitor connected via the display port through the Dock stopped working. Take another SP3 unit and place in the same dock and it drives the same external monitor just fine. Again, I’m going to try the driver pack first before doing a reimage on the unit. Thoughts?

59479408 (Mobile Ads/Malware)

I’ve seen a few of these “pop-up” fake alert windows in iOS, but not many. Lavie has seen more than a good many on her iOS devices. So far we have been able to get out of them with a bit of work but no harm done, yet. Regardless we are now more sensitive to these “exploit” methods.

Windows Internals Archives - Helge Klein ran a series of technical posts along with Aaron Parker and Shawn Bass regarding Folder Redirection. This archive link leads to them. Or, you could just hop into it at this 5th article in that series and then click backward on the previous series posts listed at the start of the page.

78434592 (Windows 8/8.1/10 and Windows Photo Viewer)

One of the most common requests for help from our Surface Pro 3 tablet users is how to get the photos embedded in emails to open up in Windows Picture Viewer rather than the Windows 10 “app”. It’s easy enough to show them how to save the attachment to disk, then right click and “open with” Windows Photo Viewer. However that’s not convenient. Here are some tips on how to set it as the default application.

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